the syntax prosody relation Dehé, Nicole. creator text bibliography enk 2014 monographic eng

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viii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in English, this book reviews the syntactic and prosodic literature on parentheticals along with relevant theoretical work at the syntax-prosody interface. It offers a detailed prosodic analysis of six types of parentheticals - full parenthetical clauses, non-restrictive relative clauses, nominal appositions, comment clauses, reporting verbs, and question tags, all taken from the spoken part of the British Component of the International Corpus of English. To date, the common assumption is that by default, parentheticals are prosodically phrased separately, an assumption which, as this study shows, is not always in line with the predictions made by current prosodic theory. The present study provides new empirical evidence for the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spontaneous and semi-spontaneous spoken English, and offers new implications for a theory of linguistic interfaces"-- Machine generated contents note: 1. Parentheticals in English: introduction; 2. The syntax and prosody of parentheticals; 3. Parentheticals, intonational phrasing and prosodic theory; 4. Data analysis, results and discussion; 5. Final discussion. Nicole Dehé, University of Konstanz. Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-246) and index. English language Parenthetical constructions Grammar, Comparative and general Parenthetical constructions English language Spoken English English language Syntax LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General P293.35 .D34 2014 425.DEH LAN000000 9780521761925 (Hardback) 2014004409 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/61925/cover/9780521761925.jpg http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/61925/cover/9780521761925.jpg DLC 140305 20200211152110.0 18055845 eng